PARIS (AP) — New movies from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme d’Or on the 78th Cannes Movie Competition, organizers introduced Thursday.
Coming off a 2024 version that produced the Academy Award best-picture winner “Anora,” in addition to quite a lot of Oscar contenders in “Emilia Pérez,” “The Substance” and “The Apprentice,” the French movie pageant responded with a 2025 lineup bursting with big-name auteurs.
Thierry Frémaux, Cannes’ inventive director, introduced the choices in a information convention in Paris with pageant president Iris Knobloch.
Entries embrace Aster’s “Eddington,” a pandemic-set Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone; Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme,” starring Benicio Del Toro as a European profiteer and Linklater’s appropriately French-language “Nouvelle Vague,” about Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave.
Julia Ducournau, whose “Titane” gained the Palme d’Or in 2021, making Ducournau solely the second feminine filmmaker to ever obtain Cannes’ prime honor, will return to the pageant with the Eighties New York-set “Alpha,” about an 11-year-old with a dad or mum who has AIDS.
Different beforehand Cannes regulars coming again embrace two-time Palme winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Belgian filmmaking brothers’ newest is titled “Young Mothers.” Joachim Trier, whose “The Worst Person in the World” was a spotlight of the 2021 Cannes, is again in competitors with “Sentimental Value,” which likewise stars Renate Reinsve.
Enjoying outdoors of competitors is Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor the Great” — the actor’s directorial debut.
Among the many movies some had hoped may present up in Cannes however that weren’t introduced had been Terrence Malick’s long-awaited Jesus drama “The Way of the Wind” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.”
Cannes earlier introduced that “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” will launch on the pageant, which three years in the past bestowed an honorary Palme d’Or on Tom Cruise. This yr, Robert De Niro is about to obtain one through the pageant’s opening ceremony.
Following within the footsteps of Greta Gerwig, Juliette Binoche will head the jury that resolve this yr’s Palme d’Or. Knobloch stated it is the primary time in 60 years that two ladies succeed one another on this position.
The pageant runs Could 13-24.
